Crackdown on pavement parking in Akld.

[SPman]

You may think I'm joking but ACC are faced with a HUGE bill for leaky building repairs. Add to this their MASSIVE waste of ratepayers money on inefficiencies and incompetence and quite simply, they're short of cash.

It's got nothing to do with motorcycles.
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They're staring down the barrel of up to $100,000,000 over the next few years, working on a 10% liability proportion ......and they can't keep whacking permit fees up! (although Building control is the only department that actually pays its own way)

[Finn]

They're staring down the barrel of up to $100,000,000 over the next few years, working on a 10% liability proportion ......and they can't keep whacking permit fees up! (although Building control is the only department that actually pays its own way)

Isn't it Joint and Several meaning if all other defendants bail then its lumped onto ACC?

[UberRhys]

I've been parking in this spot outside my office in High St since October last year. In the past 2 weeks I've received 2 infringement notices - the first for failing to display a parking receipt, and the second for breaching the maximum time (a bit of leeway by the parking warden).

Ummmm, I thought bikes didn't have to pay for parking in ACC carparking areas??

Really - what a real focker issueing a ticket for failing to display. Was this parking warden short at all?

[BevanPT]

[QUOTE=BevanPT;1437777]I've been parking in this spot outside my office in High St since October last year. In the past 2 weeks I've received 2 infringement notices - the first for failing to display a parking receipt, and the second for breaching the maximum time (a bit of leeway by the parking warden).

Update on previous post. Haven't written letter yet, but here's the latest development. Rode into work this morning and indicated to pull into usual spot. Lo and behold, a brand spanking new yellow line. Bastards!!!!!!

[mstriumph]

dark night
pot of grey paint
paint brush
bewwwwwwwdiful

[Swoop]

[Deviant]

I can't believe they did that...

To get someone out to paint one line like that would have cost them hundreds.

They have to book the person to go out there (administration), once he's booked he goes out and does it (labour and equipment), then they have to pay the guy and log the job completed (administration).

What effing difference is that going to make to anyone other than you?

NONE!!!! They went to all that trouble and cost to stop YOU from parking there, for no reason other than conformity.

I'm sorry guys, but this just proves that Australians are smarter than Kiwis. Even our Aussie politicians and council members are smarter... jeez.

[BevanPT]

I can't believe they did that...

To get someone out to paint one line like that would have cost them hundreds.

They have to book the person to go out there (administration), once he's booked he goes out and does it (labour and equipment), then they have to pay the guy and log the job completed (administration).

What effing difference is that going to make to anyone other than you?

NONE!!!! They went to all that trouble and cost to stop YOU from parking there, for no reason other than conformity.

I'm sorry guys, but this just proves that Australians are smarter than Kiwis. Even our Aussie politicians and council members are smarter... jeez.

Ridiculous I know. There are other spots on the same street that haven't been altered to conform. I guess I'll have to start parking there until they start adding more yellow lines.

[gijoe1313]

Thats the spirit!

[swbarnett]

There are other spots on the same street that haven't been altered to conform.

I noticed today similar markings at the end of parking areas somewhere around the CBD (forget where) that looked quite old. Perhaps it' policy but they only bother to paint them in when they're forced to.

[Deviant]

Haha, someone gave me bad rep and mentioned "typical Australian arrogance" for my last post.

I've put up with a lot of shit being an Aussie in NZ, mostly derogatory, and when I make a comment back (in jest, politically related) someone goes to the trouble of giving me a bad rep remark and a comment.

Clap clap handicap. Read up, it's the truth, our politicians are forward thinking, NZ's are retards.

Anyone care to disagree? Do it in public, I think you'll find the consensus is that NZ is a great country run by muppets.

[Strider]

Went down to the city center to see a mate you has a shop there and parks his BMW adventure bike on the pavement. It's in no nobody's ways as it's between a phone box and the pavement edge, but he gets a ticket today for the first time.

After talking to the warden, he's told that they had a meeting today and were told to crack down on bikes parked on the pavement.

What the fuck for?? Have there been a rash of complaints? Or more likely, it's just a crackdown for the sake of having a crackdown and this was just picked at random.

They need more money to pay for the council pay rise.

[Strider]

I think I see a simple solution for hassle-free all day footpath parking:

Remove #plate from bike while it's on the footpath. The bike's not on the road, so it's not illegal, & they can't send you a ticket 'cos they don't know who you are ;-)

Clint

You do that, then you will come back only to find that the bike has been taken by a towie.

[Soul.Trader]

Haha, someone gave me bad rep and mentioned "typical Australian arrogance" for my last post.

I've put up with a lot of shit being an Aussie in NZ, mostly derogatory, and when I make a comment back (in jest, politically related) someone goes to the trouble of giving me a bad rep remark and a comment.

Clap clap handicap. Read up, it's the truth, our politicians are forward thinking, NZ's are retards.

Anyone care to disagree? Do it in public, I think you'll find the consensus is that NZ is a great country run by muppets.

That was me, and you are an arrogant Australian. Feel free to fuck off back home if you'll be happier there.

[Strider]

Yes I agree that the politicians in NZ are retards. They are sending us into the dark ages if they had their way.